Kim Dotcom: The Most Wanted Man Online (True Crime Documentary) | Real Stories

[Music] [Music] [Music] it's really like a hollywood script that's how i see it this whole thing is a live movie that's playing out for like four and a half years already and i'm the main act [Laughter] what about the notion of being innocent until proven guilty yeah exactly where did that go you know guilty until we say he's guilty you know which is now oh it's crazy [Music] [Music] uh [Music] as local people we just knew there was a very large house because the house itself was not easily seen it became more noticeable when they started building the stone wall which pretty much surrounds it and there were all sorts of rumors about who was going to move into it and our favorite one was that it was tom cruise who was going to put a scientology center there we thought that would be kind of exciting [Music] this person turned up who had changed his name to dot com and we just thought well that was fascinating but otherwise i mean it's not as if we saw him walking along the street then the cameras went up i don't know whether they were listening devices on the end but i always wondered whether we were being listened to or watched they didn't mesh very well with the community [Music] and then there was a little bit more digging into the background and then it was oh my god who's just landed in coatesville so i started looking into who our new neighbor was going to be and i went on to all sorts of websites [Music] and the more i looked into it the more frightened i became of what kind of person was going to be coming into our community [Music] [Applause] [Music] the top story this hour new zealand is at the center of one of the world's biggest internet piracy investigations police conducted dawn raids on behalf of the fbi kim.com the founder of massive file sharing site mega upload the notorious dr evil of the information highway internet millionaire kim schmitz in einen panic wrong reflected some say he's a criminal mastermind others an online innovator but he has to be the most wanted man online hello [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] i was a hacker hackers were wizards any kind of system any kind of network you know a hacker right away identifies uh weaknesses [Music] and i'm really good at that [Music] kim schmidt wasn't the only identity that he assumed he became kimball styling himself after richard kimball from the fugitive he claimed that he had hacked into the pentagon that he had reduced the credit ratings of world leaders down to zero you know there were all these stories and some people didn't believe them they did seem sort of very fantastic in some ways they seemed sort of you know sort of the hollywood version of what a hacker must be my impression was that you know it was someone who seemed to be bragging quite a bit for someone who's you know clearly breaking the law in certain cases [Music] all the other things that he did were about reputation and learning how stuff worked the thing that he was convicted for that was a very obvious criminal enterprise it was a scam using phone cards that would then generate cash that would be.coms and he got caught the judge rightfully ruled that you know i should get a two-year probation sentence and he also said that there was an important factor which was my youthful foolishness not understanding enough at my young age you know that i shouldn't have done this [Music] but it actually launched my career [Music] that arrest actually helped him boost his reputation he set up this whole business around the idea of protecting companies from hackers like him when you're dealing with businesses that really don't have any sort of computer security expertise internally um that's a really good business to be in because you can say anything secure [Music] he used his hacker mythos to build his credibility as the security guy [Music] i do know that his reputation that he built up by the things he said he did allowed him to get investment from people and to build up this company all my life i've been an innovator and all my life i've been a little bit ahead of what everyone else was doing in the data security space you were one of the first companies to create firewalls that alert you of a hacker attack when no one was thinking about computers and cars i created the mega car real-time video conferencing from a car that was driving on the highway at 200 miles an hour [Music] you know all these things i thought about early on you know and again patented it and sold it my class kim schmidt [Music] [Applause] he did everything he could to exude this new image of himself as this hyper-successful hacker to really turn everything about his personal life into a promotion for his professional life foreign there's this weird appearance of the big guy with this black suit and then he's just nice a nice like a nice bear to cuddle with he wrote me an email and asked me well i see you like motorsports why don't you come we're having a weekend in monaco formula one race weekend why don't you come invite you and your girlfriend and let's have a party and i can meet you he likes the music we do with the band and me as a character and i thought that's interesting and he got me there [Applause] is [Applause] [Music] he uses all these status symbols cars girls and being together with celebrities like myself but he's not him he himself doesn't really act like that he everybody's having champagne hey i have champagne and there's all the girls but there's no girl on his lap and he doesn't drink alcohol and he probably feels that he makes himself likeable when he's in his picture because people like girls and champagne and stars this is zombies [Music] um [Music] up [Music] i was a complicated child my mom and i we went through hard times with my father who was an alcoholic this guy broke my mother's bones and hit me many times and was just evil when he was drinking he's the reason why i've never drank any alcohol because i saw firsthand what that stuff can do to you [Music] after the divorce my mom even though times were tough she tried to find ways to get me my first computer once i had my computer for me school was a waste of time you know i want to learn about computers i want to learn about the future [Music] let's buy it.com was an online marketplace very early version of amazon if you will dot com had talked of his plans to invest a large amount of money into let's buy it when he said he was going to do that the share price took off it was ramped massively and then he sold his shares [Music] i was in thailand because i was on a holiday and it didn't take long for some people that didn't like my attitude my lifestyle to make allegations that there's something fishy here and then the government started an investigation around insider trading [Music] and they arrested me and they took me to a thai prison the worst living conditions that i have ever experienced in my life and the embassy people arrive and they say look if you want to leave we can give you a travel document you can fly back to germany and of course i agreed the way that german authorities would cast it they had to go to thailand to drag him back dog home would have it that um he came back willingly uh to face the charges [Music] in the end i agreed to a plea bargain anymore i wanted to leave germany behind and start a new life somewhere else [Music] [Music] if there's any place in the world that is left as sort of the edge of business of finance of legality it's the wild west sort of town hong kong is all about capitalism companies start their daily and disappear the next day it was both at the center of the world and on its edge [Music] he felt it was really easy to restart what he was trying to do in germany there without much oversight using a pc to download music is one of the hottest of today's computer trends and that has the recording companies up in arms and heading to court members of the entertainment industry are fighting new websites like napster which allow you to download music off for the internet free of charge it's a surprisingly simple idea known as file sharing napster is providing a service that give people the opportunity to steal our music it started with the music industry they were no longer in charge of how they distributed their wares because we had napster if it was digitized then you could copy it and send it across the globe any one person could do that when i wanted something special a certain song i couldn't find it i couldn't buy it in a record store and i couldn't order it i just went online and got it from napster or from some other dark corner in the internet [Music] it was a little on vogue was a little radical everybody did this and in this transition times when the legal of when the legal market legal honor market started to establish and in that time everybody did this [Music] every aspect of music has changed how it's consumed how it's disseminated how it's marketed it's this shifting climate and the old guards trying to hold on and penalize anyone who impedes their revenue streams so they had these crazy lawsuits against suburban housewives who had downloaded illegally 20 songs you know trying to like sue them for millions of dollars well i don't think this is about record companies um i think this is about whether or not people who create music and invest in music have a right to get paid the record companies never gave a damn about the artists anyway 95 of them have problems retrieving their money from the major corporations anyway four major corporations four of them and hillary's fighting to protect them ms wilson isn't this strictly about your profits and your money well it's about everybody's profits and money originally the film industry was quite naive in believing that they were immune because they thought you know we've got two gigabyte three gigabyte files and if you're sharing those you know in dial-up modems it would take days to download but of course in the current state it's trivial to download that kind of content and so that industry is threatened as well and the business model of that industry is very different from music you know when you get access to music you want a song that if you like it you're going to listen to it a thousand times if you watch a movie it's not likely you're going to watch it two or three times so they had a stronger reason to be anxious that people not get access to their movie and to bleed the potential revenue you can copy on a digital format ten thousand copies and the ten thousands copy is as pure and pristine as the original if you allow that if you don't have copyright to protect you on the internet we're dead [Music] they had no understanding the music industry had been decimated the film industry had the same problem they didn't understand what was coming until things had already gotten out of hand as you can see 250 this is the gun ball speed ladies and gentlemen gumball rally is where the richest car nuts in the world get together to cover thousands of miles across europe dot com treated it like it was a race because he likes to win everything this is the winner this is the winner i've been a hacker in like 30 years and then i started you know always when i was there there were videos made about it and i wanted to share them with my friends and i could not because the files were too big to send via email and i was like well let's create a site where you can upload a file and then instead of emailing the file you just email the link and no matter how large the file is people can download it and problem solved that's how it started [Music] at the time mega upload really took off we were a relatively small team of developers [Music] there are not many people that i know that i can call a genius but matthias is he was the brains behind the code he is really a genius brahm was kind of a fan of kim because of his gumball racing and i think that way they met because he said you know i can i'm a coder too can i do something for you [Music] i was not part of the founding members i met him at a club in munich [Music] kim got in touch with me because mega upload grew and there was a need for marketing and advertising so because we knew each other and he trusted me [Music] there was this boom in remote storage locker services that people were using for both um infringing and non-infringing purposes to store information in what we now call the cloud i guess you could really say that megaupload was among the innovators of consumer cloud services certainly the interface design was was dead simple so we talked about mega upload we're going to be talking a lot about music and films but it's not just that academic research data sets this is the promise of the internet right that across the globe we can share access to all of this stuff and build upon it and share it and that's really really amazing and that's the underlying technology of cloud computing that that mega upload use that's really so exciting [Music] it was a high demand we had crazy rates of growth so you have a million visitors on your website and every user that came to our website is potentially advertising income it doubled in size almost every month and we needed to get new servers more banned with new servers more bandwidth [Music] i was surprised i was so surprised that something simple would grow into such proportions but i also immediately understood its potential [Music] now weather.com ever envisioned what it was going to turn into i don't know but users did [Music] once users could see the latest hollywood movies on mega upload the use of the site exploded they would google a movie they wanted to see or a song they wanted to hear it would be one of the top hits they'd click on the link and oh yeah i guess i'm at mega upload and by the way if you wanted to go faster pay here then they would pay there and get a premium account and have it go faster so it actually it was very well designed to attract people who weren't even thinking one way or the other about legal illegal they just wanted to see the movie and were happy to pay somebody for the privilege and a company like kim.coms was cashing the checks [Music] a girlfriend i saw her watching mad men on her computer and i'm like where did you get that and she's all like mega upload and i'm like what is that and she told me that mega upload was in place at the university of kansas where she had just graduated earlier to find free movies how did you hear about it she said her 63 year old professor at the university of kansas turned her on to mega upload it and then i was like this is big they're essentially streaming to you and it was easy if they make this this simple to do this means it could go mainstream [Music] i was traveling a lot in asia and i was in the philippines at a disco and i saw mona dancing on the dance floor [Music] and she immediately caught my eye because she is so incredibly beautiful i was a bit shy so i sent my pa to go to mona and ask her if she wants to join us he was just this guy sitting alone on the corner so it's like why is no no talking to him i thought we really connected we both grew up in a tough life but yeah we were just friends [Music] i just knew that i wanted to be with her i mean look at me i'm not a supermodel right [Music] now we are going to the tower of the eiffel tower so i i have to spend extra time and extra work to get someone to fall for me but she ultimately did and we were really happy together [Music] we went on a holiday to new zealand and we just fell in love with the [Music] what's place okay we are up here on the hill at cotswold this is our house we found that house and coats road and we just made that our second home [Music] mega upload was huge and there were tens of millions of dollars coming in [Music] at that time he was largely unknown in new zealand he was a reclusive wealthy foreigner who was living in the grandest house in the land [Music] now for the biggest fireworks display ever seen in new zealand a gift from mrkim.com as he hovers up here over our beautiful harbour happy new year auckland happy new year [Music] dot com had a very slow entry into new zealand life but then he spent about half a million dollars on fireworks display there was a celebration of getting this residency [Applause] these thieves are now migrating offshore locating themselves in places that are beyond the jurisdiction of u.s courts and so we need to come up with a mechanism to protect our jobs and protect the intellectual property by going after those sites or those search engines that allow these illegal criminal foreign sites to exist dot com had a plan to list mega upload he wanted to float the company and he reckoned it was worth about two billion dollars that's the next level stuff [Music] we wanted to launch several new sites one of them was mega movies which was a netflix competitor and the aim was to license content from the big studios we have megabox it would give the artist 90 of the earnings it would give them an online platform where they can sell directly to their fan base because we were thinking about how can we reinvent this whole copyright model how can we make it work for the artists and creators directly kim was definitely talking about new business models that he was working on the new services that he was working on and you got this idea that like many other platforms that started out as being very focused on kind of infringing uses a legitimate and authorized business model might actually come out of it this technology is live and in place now yes that's correct i i will happily do a deal with you guys not not an issue amazing great i'm happy to hear that we have gotten a lot of fire from everyone you know in the content industry uh for you know mega upload there are there are certain people i can have conversations with where you will be moved on to a different list as opposed to if it would be from evil to neutral and then later from neutral to good i think that would be fair that we can do that okay good one of the things that i thought was maybe this was a sign that you know upload was making that that sort of shift to a legitimate platform the movie industry did not react that way i think they sort of freaked out they don't go past this whole there's infringement it's bad end it [Music] [Music] megaupload was effectively a copycat of some of pirate services that already existed at the time so it was no great innovation in what they did they just did it better in the sense that they bested their pirate competitors in terms of growing so the entire business model was based on distributing content that mega upload didn't own this guy is becoming a multi-multi-millionaire and dual use this is not people sharing their vacation photos and then others paying a premium to download them a little faster this is just movie after movie after movie [Music] kim.com made a lot of money for himself [Music] did he make a lot of money to fund all of the art that he was distributing for free no way also remember that like creators have rights i mean in the universal declaration of human rights which was signed by the u.n not the mpaa you know you have the right to moral and material interests of your work that's a big deal you want to give it away for free give it away for free you want to stream it stream it you want to put it on laserdisc beam it into space show it on airplanes that's your choice but kim was violating the rights of a lot of people [Music] when someone like kim.com put up a site and he collects millions of dollars of advertising income off that site to pay for his yachts and his mansions and his private jets that's to me parasitical he is parasite and he is sucking the blood out of the artist's corporate body just one more time are you ready so he's a criminal and there's it's just that simple you know he deserved he should be in jail i'm not done i've just begun kim.com kim.com i'm not done i've just begun i've just begun kim.com that wasn't right let's do it again and then the other one i was working on a music site called mega box megabox was actually a real threat to the music labels because it empowered the artists and cut out the middlemen these monopolist labels that are just stealing money from them and the artists love that hey we have our hitmen and they were all excited they wanted to be a part of that and that's why they decided to promote mega in the way they have done [Music] when i got to seeing fouls across the [Music] i like to use mega upload yeah i like mega upload i like mega uploads a whole bunch of a-listers well-known faces singing a mega upload jingle just like i like it i mean that was really sticking his fingers up the noses of the record companies in hollywood [Music] but it was surprising because i'm sure that many of the labels that represent these celebrities were incredibly unhappy to see that promo because their message was one that does not align very easily with a copyright industry's message that any kind of copyright infringement hurts them not helps them like what is this here are the artists backing kim.com the mega upload at a crucial time listen kim.com is a pr genius he knows what what really makes impact he knows what people want to see he knows what's going to affect them the guy's a genius when it comes to that and hollywood had no idea that he'd be able to do this kind of thing that came out of nowhere hey i'm alicia keys and i use mega upload hi i'm naomi campbell what up though i'm demi moore hey what's up it's kim kardashian and i love mega upload these people are [ __ ] they're they're you know wave a little check in front of them they'll show up anywhere and that's what's so sad you know i mean the music business didn't used to be that way but now you know whether it's brands or kim.com people are so anxious to get some cash that they'll do anything he seemed to them he was rubbing their nose that he was living this huge mansion with all these cars living this high life and to them he was doing that with their money [Music] it's like he had to go yeah so he kind of in a way he invited some of this he has long been viewed as an adversary of the film and entertainment industry in hollywood and that industry wields enormous political power inside the united states and therefore wields great influence within the halls of power of washington top lobbyists for hollywood told fox his industry is threatening to cut off money to the president don't make the false assumption this year that because we did it in years past we're going to do it this year this industry is watching very carefully who's going to stand up for them when their job is at stake chris dodd the head of the motion picture association of america the most powerful lobbying group for hollywood in america was very explicit about the fact that you know if you're not going to give us what we want we're not going to give you what you want when it comes around time for you to raise money to fund your campaigns now that was more explicit than he should have been because it just sounded so grotesque but what he was saying was understood by everybody to be true i've heard a lot of suspicion about whether hollywood really did put pressure on the president to take down a site that they believe was pirating music and films and i would say yeah absolutely that's what we do he shouldn't be surprised by that that's what happens you get in between america and its money and you're going to have big problems [Music] i think [Music] [Music] move to gate location over copied [Music] [Music] gay child [Applause] made entry into the future not the target closed slammed and had a uh security lock on it bridged it the residence of the garage has been secured we have three occupants we're going through [Music] location of frontal property a key directive one of the male targets says his name is we have the five nannies plus his children up in the top of the garage roger that thank you located target safe room level confirm located target safe room thank you [Music] they've been arrested on warrants relating to a breach of copyright offences in the united states money laundering and racketeering within new zealand we have seized an excess of six million dollars worth of top-end motor vehicles and over 10 million dollars in cash from several new zealand finance companies [Music] more details of kim.com's actions during the raid have emerged police say when they arrived in two helicopters dot com retreated into an electronically locked panic room they found him clutching a sawed-off shotgun and they had to cut him out of the room the firearm that was found to say it was illegal there's a photo of it and it was [Music] credit loaded [Music] the fbi claims that kim.com made 175 million dollars in criminal proceedings and that mega upload cost half a billion dollars in harm to copyright owners it was put into the criminal category because he was a criminal and he is a criminal and he was a pretty significant criminal just because he's not violent doesn't mean his conduct isn't criminal people go to jail for securities fraud every day without ever having taken a bath to the side of someone's head so the harm that kim.com causes really does affect real people it affects those 1.9 million people to go to work every day trying to earn a living in the film and television industry it felt affects the small businesses that are trying to start up new legitimate online platforms and that are playing by the rules so the conduct that kim.com engaged in was criminal and it had real victims well i'm relieved to go home to see my family my three little kids and my pregnant wife and i hope you understand that that's all i want to say right now was released on bill today after 31 days in prison a hearing will be held shortly to determine whether the mega upload co-accused will be sent to washington to stand trial if found guilty that ben could face up to 80 years in prison [Music] we were living in this uh happy bubble you know everything was perfect until the raid yay it's happening oh i'm scared what's that oops [Music] super good baby don't worry it's all good today i'm a daddy again two more kids little tiny girls two beautiful little pirates [Music] that was really good that i was able to be outside to watch the twins get born you know that gave me a lot of energy it reminded me you know that i really need to fight for them i knew we were innocent i knew these allegations were wrong i actually read the indictment on the day we got arrested and i had to laugh i i said to my co-defense this will be over really quick this is such a nonsense it will be so easy to discredit and show that they got it all wrong you know while i was reminded i got all these press clippings and they were saying that i was found with a sawn off shotgun uh you know that they had to use this kind of force because i had weapons in the house and you know the whole description of the case and who i am was just completely unrealistic and not true so i decided that i want to set the record straight of course everybody knows that the internet is being used for legitimate and illegitimate uses and i think every online service provider has the same challenges that we had uh youtube google everybody is in the same boat and our legal advisors have always told us that we are secure and that we are protected by the dmca which is a law in the u.s that is protecting online service providers of liability for the actions of their users [Music] kim's legal team would argue that they're no different than any other cloud storage service they're not responsible for what the users do they have no liability um end of story as far as they're concerned with the government alleges what the entertainment industry alleges is that well no the website was set up to give incentives for people to upload you know valuable material meaning you know newly released films newly released music things like that [Music] that's also very important to mention i shouldn't ever have been in a situation to defend myself against exhibition because there's simply no basis in law in new zealand to extradite me they have to prove to a nazim court that the treaty between the united states and new zealand extradition treaty covers copyright and from what i've seen there's nothing in there about copyright [Music] they're concocted [Music] and they're piling them on to figure out a way to make out a case where none should exist [Music] but like a house you know like dominos if there is no criminal copyright infringement all the others will fall [Music] the whole dot-com mega upload process turned out to be far more than new zealand ever bargained for [Music] anything that we could get wrong we got wrong the new zealand authorities managed to pretty much screw up every step of the process along the way the search warrant that was used to execute the raid it has to be directed towards whatever the alleged criminal enterprise is this document didn't do that it was an incredibly vague document [Music] the authorities in new zealand cloned dot com's laptops which have been seized during the raid the court had effectively said this evidence remains in new zealand the fbi took the clones and sent them back to the united states it's extraordinary dot com's rights the process of law uh had been thwarted and there needed to be some sort of redress for that the internet millionaire has been back in court for a three-day hearing police were quizzed about what level of threat he posed and whether the elite special tactics group was needed to execute the search warrants in january the police are not every day going into domestic houses onto the teeth with automatic weapons bashing down doors quartering the household in a paramilitary fashion shouting orders at one another that's not ordinary police practice in new zealand is it or have i missed something i think you've missed something if the risk assessment is that there are firearms in the property the police will not execute that search right without armed police when one reads the indictment of mega upload i noticed that there were references to child pornography and terrorism they do not have any relevance to a claim of copyright infringement but that is part of the effort to paint the defendants as extremely dangerous and ugly and nasty persons and that your owners find that our food and they had a message the guy's dangerous he has weapons and so everybody thought this kim.com guy is not just into piracy they gave the impression that he was much more dangerous at number other things that he might be into and of course that turned out to be alive one was taken at a resort called cape kidnappers in napier and i was there with my family for holiday and we had an afternoon where we did clay shooting and the other event was a similar occasion in ireland over 10 years ago [Music] i was almost seven months pregnant i was having contractions but that was not my focus i just thought to myself oh my god the kids because i could see the guys with their um weapons with their guns how silly is that so i was just like um can you please let me go to my kids they're like no you just have to stand there you have to stand there i'm like i need to go to my kids i need to see my kids those are my kids in there it's because i was just worried that you know they're gonna come in their room with their guns so you were relying upon the intelligence information which the fbi were providing to you is that right yes the fbi and the department of justice were involved from the very outset and that's perhaps not surprising what's surprising is how keen the new zealand authorities were just to adopt what we assume to be the recommendations from the fbi when they went in uh fast and hard it was because the police were under the impression that there was this doomsday device that was in the mansion somewhere that would effectivate destroy evidence of wrongdoing anywhere in the world what destruction devices oh the laptop and the iphone or the pda whatever it was it was found they were not destruction devices were they what do you expect a box of the red button on it the mission was to arrest me as quickly as possible right so that i could not use any doomsday device in actuality it took them 15 minutes to find me in my own house there's never been any such device and it was never found that's all [ __ ] i think that the rationale is clear it was meant to send a message around the world don't mess with the united states on copyright issues the only other raid that i can think of that sounds similar is the rate on osama bin laden and these are vastly different levels of importance you know it sort of looked like you were taking down a south american dictator [Music] i thought it was bizarre and i thought it was also it's quite symptomatic of how we've gotten into such an extreme position around some of these issues things that uh i might not even agree with that megaplug was doing um i think weren't um a proper address in court and so forth it doesn't mean you need to send helicopters and masses of teams with machine guns and so on [Music] that's it you just made history man it's [ __ ] huge man later okay bye oh man [Music] first tonight a ruling in the past hour on the kim.com case as he fights fbi attempts to extradite him to the united states a high court judge says search warrants for the internet entrepreneur's auckland mansion were illegal justice helen winkleman has decided the warrants used were invalid new zealand police seized bank accounts on behalf of the fbi and took away property worth millions now they may have to give it all back it's a damning judgment illegal unlawful invalid justice when killman doesn't hold back i'm embarrassed about this i am a weaver oh absolutely but we appear to almost be puppets of the fbi there was a feeling that the machinery of state had been exercised against dot com in a way that was uh unjust or unfair suddenly new zealanders saw that there was two sides to the story and maybe this was the u.s state bullying someone that was a spanner in the works of hollywood productions suddenly people wanted to fight against injustice suddenly you know he became a cause celeb the war for the internet has begun hollywood is in control of politics there's huge contradictions in kim.com even in the face of these huge legal battles he faces he seems to have a huge sense of humor and likes to taunt the u.s government [Music] i think that playful attitude is one reason that a lot of people who might otherwise be really skeptical of what he's done knowing that you know the primary driving force behind many of these companies is to make money nevertheless kind of can appreciate him [Music] it's quite interesting that a lobby group around entertainment content can get the white house to move against an internet nerd with military force i mean think about that for a moment isn't that it's it's funny and none of it will change anything none of what they have done has changed anything to alter the way the internet works or the levels of piracy when mega uploads shut down in the 18 weeks following that shutdown sales through legitimate outlets went up six to ten percent and that's just one site it was one of the major sites at the time that's just one site and you saw an uptick of use of legitimate sites by an amount of six or ten percent so that's a really significant amount of of impact on the legitimate market [Music] you can't really trust the industry numbers on that problem and you certainly can't trust uh the industry's analysis and understanding of the operation of the internet i mean one of the strongest drivers for piracy is when people are hearing all this buzz about something that really is fantastic but they can't get it legally in their country and then they turn illegally to download it well we may disapprove of that behavior but we can't stop that behavior and there's actually a very simple solution that doesn't involve sending out swat teams it involves hey change your business policy everything that you are selling in one country sell it in every country and if you don't don't be surprised if people are pirating it [Music] i'm an avid gamer i play modern warfare on xbox and i noticed that my speed my internet speed went down by about 20 30 milliseconds [Laughter] and a normal internet user would never ever identify that but me being a competitive gamer i noticed it and only after the raid did i figure out what happened they rerouted all my traffic in a way that they could capture all my data that went through my connection [Music] during the high court hearings grant wormhold was being cross-examined and he was being asked about his notebook and he looked extremely awkward on the 14th of december 2011 was there a further meeting that you attended to plan this operation uh where there was a range of people there someone from the justice department was it yes and was there another group of people represented as well at that meeting yes there was what uh field of activity were they involved with they worked for the government right are you not able to tell us who they were i'd rather not reason just because of the nature of the organisation [Music] it was clear that something had gone horribly horribly right the intelligent agencies had somehow become involved in the mega upload case the gcsb the government communications security bureau new zealand's equivalent to the national security agency was spying on.com it's also a part of what's called the five eyes arrangement the five eyes between them spy on the world the power that they have is immense once you kim.com was in new zealand the us began exploiting the relationship that they had with the gcsb and the new zealand government to ensure that gettingchem.com became one of their principal priorities to the point where they engaged in a legal storm he wants to do so the gcsb is controlled by quite specific legislation that says you're not allowed to spy on new zealand residents or citizens this is something i really like to point out that is important for me when they tapped into my iphone because if that happens to you it alters the way you think completely you realize that it wasn't just my emails that they read they were there when i was private with my wife they were right there they have no business doing that to anybody at all i find that more than a little bit disturbing is that a way the government is supposed to act with communications monitoring are you supposed to be turning the antennas that are meant to protect your country from outside threats back on yourself for the prosecution of what i'm not even sure in new zealand is necessarily a criminal act tonight the kim.com affair is leaving john key's government increasingly red-faced the boss of the intelligence bureau prime minister john key has ordered a probe into illegal bugging off the internet millionaire of course i apologize to mr.com i apologize to new zealanders because every new zealander that sits within the category of holding a permanent residency or a new zealand citizen is entitled to be protected from the law this is really a matter of mistake and human error not one of a great conspiracy [Music] i wish you a mega christmas i wish you a mega christmas i wish you a mega christmas from santa.com shutting down the internet [Music] truth integrity knowledge independence [Music] [Music] the four mega upload accused did a remarkable thing in the year after they were arrested they built a business called megan [Music] that he was motivated by a desire to create an encrypted cloud storage site so that nobody could be spied on in the way that he had been spotted the u.s government is investing billions into massive spy clouds to capture all your data and communication by using mega you say no to governments that want to spy on you lord knows what's on there it could be copyrighted files it could be isis planning documents it could be child porn it could be whatever it might be they've built it so that nobody can see inside [Music] that by the way is also what's going to beat this surveillance state i will be one person that will be remembered as somebody who has fought mass surveillance with technology that gives you your freedom back [Music] the innermost workings of our top spy agency have been exposed in a damning report police have found the gcsb broke the law by spying on kim.com and 85 other new zealanders prime minister key's solution to the debacle is to change the law giving more power to our top intelligence agency if passed the law will permit the gcsb to now spy on all new zealand citizens [Music] thank you all for coming today the us government is the most power hungry government out there and gcsp is one of the puppets on the strings of the us government and the biggest puppet of them all is john key your prime minister and i will never settle my case i will fight until we know the truth until we know every single detail there were fireworks today at parliament as the prime minister john key went head to head with kim.com the internet tycoon was making a public submission on the proposed changes to the country's spy laws you feel that the or do you know or believe that the the prime minister was aware of what you were doing before the raid took place he knew about me before the raid i know about that i didn't [Applause] you know i know i know you don't know i know you don't know actually but that's fine why are you turning red prime minister i'm not why are you sweating no it's hot oh okay i have a scarf but the question was if the prime minister knew about me before the raids and the answer to that is yes [Music] they gave me residency in new zealand for the purpose of extradition warner brothers was already in talks with the new zealand government to shoot the hobbit films here and we're talking about you know triple digit million dollar budgets lots of opportunity for new zealand so the prime minister has seen this as a double strike opportunity number one we can make these hollywood studios happy so they will shoot more movies here and on top of that we can please the white house because on the highest levels they wanted me shut down certainly there's a lot of evidence to suggest that that conspiracy theory is true [Music] [Music] he was allowed to stay in the country despite having a criminal past which would normally preclude him from getting residency this occurred at the same time that the new zealand prime minister john key was meeting with hollywood officials can i go through the list of people we believe knew about kim.com simon power and some officials jonathan coleman and some of the officials the solicitor general's office crown law new zealand police the attorney general the organized and financial crime agency of new zealand nigel bickel and an unknown number of people under him at immigration new zealand your electorate office hillary clinton the u.s department of justice the fbi the u.s attorney a general's office senior members of the u.s police force yeah but not you craig i mean look i hate to tell you the bad news there's no great conspiracy the facts are life that dot com is someone the united states thinks they've broken the law he's somebody that they're trying to extradite to the united states that's where it starts and finishes kim.com has failed in a last-ditch attempt to have the 2012 raid on his coatesville mansion ruled invalid the supreme courts found the search warrants were legal police won't be charging anyone at the gcsb in relation to a complaint about spying on kim.com every time we win they appeal it's a default we win they appeal [Music] and you know every time they appeal they win it's all very political [Music] [Applause] hello good morning thank you all for coming today is a big day uh we're launching the internet party i couldn't believe it i said to.com are you really going to do it then are you going to go into politics and he said yeah and i thought god you've lost it that's completely mad i couldn't care less about politics are you kidding me like why would i get involved you know and then i found out all these things firsthand being abused being subject to the abuse of power yeah of course i wanted to replace the government why else would i do it you know for the tear swordman brian van der kult finvutarto i think that dotcom's involvement in politics was a sideshow and a distraction they struggled to see how it was going to stop an extradition process that was underway how it was going to change the charges that they might face in the united states [Music] is [Music] thank you guys kim is always the super confident and i'm always someone worrying like but still i'm a woman i would worry of course that's my thing i'm a worry award [Music] you're still kind of like left hanging like i don't even know what's gonna happen six months from now like kim's hearing's still going on i just don't know i think the whole stress really got to me and you know the rate of course was part of it we were really happy before you know mona had a great difficulty dealing with the raid she struggled with it and it affected our relationship that's probably the most regrettable outcome of this whole case against me that our relationship fell apart [Music] she was the love of my life [Music] [Music] it became apparent as the election year of 2014 was rolling on that the internet party was not going to succeed so dot com started to look around for alliances the party that was willing to work with him was the mana party which had a more left-wing and activist space kim.com told one news he's now forked out a whopping 4 million dollars for the deal with the mana party kim.com has a particular legal interest in not being sent back to justice elsewhere everybody knows that kim.com is putting money behind the political party to try and stop himself being extradited [Music] it was important for the mana party to be able to introduce its new political partner to its constituency [Music] they would go down the country [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] everyone was quite surprised at how successful they were people took them seriously and wondered whether they would um play an important part in a new government and the media reported everything they did i'm not sure that mana handled no that scrutiny very well you work in news you puffed up little you're a fake you're a fake john k [Music] the internet mana roadshow had aspects that appeared to be targeting john key personally [Music] [Applause] [Applause] attacks on john key have hit new heights this campaign [Applause] this effigy burning the latest online outrage it was probably the nastiest election that new zealand has seen if not for many many decades then forever kim.com has promised to drop a number of bombshells that could topple the prime minister john key at an upcoming event build the moment of truth [Music] the day that the moment of truth was to be held i'd received an email which purported to show that everything.com had said about the conspiracy was true that new zealand served him up on a plate so rang.com and i said is this what you're going to be pulling out at the moment of truth tonight and he said yes it is [Music] so what kind of impact could there be from all this tonight well it is these are extraordinary revelations to be laid out five days uh before a campaign uh john key is fighting really for his political life remember he has said he would resign if there was any evidence to show mass surveillance and of course we also have this email on the hollywood links for you guys [Music] the moment of truth for john key would have been a high risk scenario because the two things that dot com had promised to produce were things that he said he was going to resign if they turned out to be the case [Applause] tonight we welcome the world and to extend the welcome of aotearoa to glenn green world [Applause] julian assange [Applause] welcome edward snowden [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] the us has this war for control of the internet and it is a war they don't feel that there should be an organization like wikileaks they believe that the spine that they do should be kept secret they believe that when it comes to copyright the approach that they have should radiate out across the world what we saw there in that town hall that was the resistance you've got this network of sensors around the world so i can see everything i can see what book you looked at at amazon.com i can see who you talked to i can see who your friends on facebook are i can see the text messages you sent i can read the emails you wrote exactly the kind of mass surveillance that prime minister key not only vehemently denied was being done but which he promised he would resign if it were determined his government were actually engaged covert intelligence agencies by definition are designed to operate outside the law and so they cannot be trusted no matter what assange or snowden were going to say dotcom was still the emperor with new clothes he hadn't produced the thing that he had pledged that he would that he'd been talking about forever so long [Music] and that was a real problem for dot com and for pretty much anybody that had backed him up until that point what people have been waiting for tonight is when kim.com came to the parliament and said that he would prove that john key was a liar tonight we did we're excused just absolutely to this okay i think and i want to address all media here tonight you have an obligation after what you have learned tonight to take the information that you were told here by glenn greenwald and edward snowden to the prime minister and this government and hold them accountable we have focused on the much bigger lie which is not about my case which is about every single new zealander who is subjected to mass surveillance that is a story that you should focus on get your priorities right we will we will i hope you will i hope you because in the past in the past patrick you have let new zealanders down i don't understand how you let the prime minister get away time and time again with his lies and his spin you need to do your job and everyone here needs to do their job and i'm doing my job by asking you what's gone wrong kim.com what's going on i think that's it thank you thank you for wrapping it up that email i know it comes from hacker circles you know about the famous sony hack the same people who were responsible for that were responsible for this hack i was assured that that email would contain headers which is what allows you to identify all the details you know what mail server was used the date stamps that would have allowed anyone to verify the contents but unfortunately the email was not leaked with that information so it became useless for me yeah and i regret that i could not use it uh in the event everyone welcome to decision 14 the campaign is over the voting is over and the counting has begun now politics is a very serious business this has been a fairly serious and at times thoroughly unpleasant campaign will be hoping that they've got something to celebrate tonight right at the start there was quite a swelling of support for dot com because they saw him as someone that had been the victim of the big goliaths of the us fbi the new zealand police but suddenly he was seen as a more aggressive player and it was john key that was the underdog [Music] the internet mana party is in trouble oh my goodness in the last 20 minutes it's all completely changed up here this is phenomenal what we are seeing here is the internet mana alliance is not in parliament and kim.com's millions and millions of dollars goes down the drain [Music] good evening everybody we lost tonight because of me i take i have to say this i have to say it i'm sorry [Music] i'm i'm really sorry i have to say this i have to say this i take full responsibility for this loss tonight because the brand the brand kim.com was poison for what we were trying to achieve and i did not see that before and it only came apparent became apparent to me in the last couple of weeks so to all of you who have worked so hard i say thank you very much three more years [Applause] [Music] the day after the election the solicitor general of new zealand has approached my lawyers and asking if i was willing to leave new zealand the case would be resolved there wouldn't have to be an extradition and this whole thing could go away don't do a raid like this and destroy the man's family and his business and cause so much pain and get away with it with some piece of paper that says yeah i've done something wrong but now i'm free thank you very much well [ __ ] them [Music] after four and a half years of delays the extradition hearing against kim.com and the mega upload co-accused starts in auckland new zealand today the judge will determine whether the four men will be free to remain in new zealand or whether they will be sent to the us where they could face decades in prison this is cited as the largest copyright case that our world has ever seen still think we should win and uh i'm very confident in my legal team you know our submissions are excellent any unbiased legal mind is going to see what has happened here [Music] the case is really important because it raises important legal issues relating to the extradition process but first they've got to show that the conduct they complain of is in fact a crime we say look what you allege on the facts is not a crime in your honour we'll see that there is a specific piece of legislation called the copyright act and it provides protection for internet service providers simply providing that technology to its users does not expose a company to civil or criminal liability they seem very confident they always point to the same things there's nothing in new zealand us treaty that covers copyright and they think that they're going to win okay let's go down the dishonesty at the core of mega upload operations may be expressed in straightforward terms the evidence boils down to a simple scheme of fraud not a passive dumb pipe service provider but a massive hard drive of infringing material christine gordon represents the united states of america she has to be i'm sure tutored by the doj and the united states has gotten every ounce of effort out of her we have some good glimpses of how the respondents thought and acted behind the scenes we have some highly revealing communications between them as mr ortman privately put it copyright owners would find and these are his words that now follow we are not the dumb pipe we claimed to be bram vanderkolt marveled at the position they had attained and these are his words if copyright holders would really know how big our business is they would surely try to do something against it they have no idea that we're making millions in profit each month ortman told vanderkolk and these are mr altman's words we did some things right we allowed fraud for a long time fueling our growth [Music] i was startled i mean the whole court shuts up everybody stops because they're startling on or about august 16 2010 via skype dot com told ortman in german in mr.com's words at some point a judge will be convinced about how evil we are and then we're in trouble objectively translated it should read because at some stage a judge will be talked into how bad we allegedly are and then it will be a mess the united states had the ability to select what evidence it wanted to present and we said cherry picked it it was very selective and biased about the evidence it picked in place before our court and a lot of the conversations were also in a foreign language they were in german and as a result the united states relied on translations which we were able to show were incorrect and in fact misleading your honor um should also have received this morning a bundle that looks like this part of section 101 b is set out in the submissions of page 65. it's a 21 october red bundle sir and you need to understand that this judge was spammed with thousands of pages of submissions by the us government they basically drowned him in material and i knew he didn't understand anything about the case he had no clue about the internet about copyright at one point in one hearing he asked if mega was cow storage not cloud storage cow storage it was a pretty frustrating hearing we had prepared over many hours and we had committed significant human and financial resources into mounting what we thought was a very credible defense to extradition and most of our arguments were marginalized or not even considered by the court [Music] [Music] the overwhelming preponderance of evidence produced by the applicant in the record of case and its supplements establishes a prima facie case to answer for all respondents on each of the counts the decision is found that all four respondents are eligible for extradition therefore pursuant to section 26 subsequently um [Music] [Music] time has passed by meg upload [Music] there's always going to be people who want a pirate and there's always going to be these services but are they going to be mainstream i would argue no [Music] piracy is in decline but they told us all along the tech side said hey if you make it easy to get our hands on at a cheap price it's easily accessible there's not going to be any piracy and that's what they did they've gotten the message [Music] what good is it to throw him in jail now find out what the guy knows make a partnership with him you've got his money and i'd say the smart move is right like the godfather keep your friends close and your enemies closer they should be doing that while we have perfectly good reason to want to prevent piracy of content and allow artists and the companies that support them to make a profit off of what they do the mechanisms that we're using to try and enforce these things are also mechanisms for censorship and for oppression of freedom of thought and it's a slippery slope that's a dangerous thing [Music] it's not about what's right anymore it's about winning at all costs they want to drag me down to win that's all that matters to them but they picked the wrong guy because he can't drag me down and i will win [Music] [Music] i know you don't love me but you don't have to be so mean i know you don't love me but you don't have to be so mean treat me like the worst thing you've ever seen dream it like the worst thing you've ever seen i know you don't love me but you don't have to be so cruel i know you don't love me but you don't have to be so cruel [Music] treat me like a low damn stupid fool [Music] dreaming like a low dancer [Music] i know you don't love me but you don't have to be so mean i know you don't love me but you don't have to be so mean treat me like the worst thing you've ever seen [Music] dreaming like the worst thing you ever seen [Music] [Applause] [Music] dreaming like the worst thing you've ever had [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] i know you don't love me but you don't have to be so mean treat me like the worst thing you've ever seen dreaming like the worst thing you've ever seen [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] treat me like the worst thing you've ever seen [Music] dream [Music] [Applause] [Music] i know [Music] i [Music] know you don't love me but you don't have to be so mean i know you don't love me but you don't have to be so mean [Music] you

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Length: 107min 37sec (6457 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 07 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/jtho78]

How is this different than the 2017 film Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web? Weird it is retitled but the opening credits still have the original title.

[u/FarisNear2]

The uploader has not made this video available in your country. Thank you.

[u/Salty_Natural_3893]

Megaupload was the shit in 2012

[u/leekdonut]

So just from this post alone we can conclude that the video isn't available in India, Finland, the Netherlands and Germany.

Where IS it available? US-only?

[u/ZataH]

Video not available in my country, but guessing you are talking about Kim Dotcom: Caught in the web ? At least the playtime is the same

EDIT: Oh didnt see it is supposedly from 2021. Just odd it is the exact same length as the one I linked

[u/Siskvac]

Alright then keep your secrets.

[u/slipstream808]

He ever get that rally done in the mid 2000's?

[u/pencil_the_anus]

"Not available in your region) - India :(

Mirror anyone?

EDIT: I guess this is it: https://peertube.jensdiemer.de/w/fu127WuddFcjdpUsp89GkG

[u/bibbidybobbidyboobs]

"Dotcom, so help me God."